Clem Martini is an award-​winning playwright, novelist, and screenwriter with over thirty plays and twelve books of fiction and nonfiction to his credit, including the W.O. Mitchell Book Prize–winning Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness, the recently launched The Unravelling, and The Comedian. His texts on playwriting, The Blunt Playwright, The Greek Playwright, and The Ancient Comedians are employed widely at universities and colleges across the continent. He currently teaches in the School of Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Calgary.